Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Maimonides

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

Maggie Gallagher

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Jo Nesbo

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

The last two years in Seattle, it wasn't that fun. It wasn't a fun atmosphere. Everybody on the team was down. I didn't get to play much. With the Angels, I had a lot of fun. It's great to come back to a team that's just incredible as far as the makeup of this team and the desire and the drive. It's so refreshing.

Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Marcus Garvey

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

James Surowiecki

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

Elizabeth Smart

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

The desire to participate in the material growth being generated in the Indian mobile market should come as no surprise and has been well flagged by Vodafone,

William Blake

The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.

Laurence Sterne

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Henry Van Dyke

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

Henri Poincare

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Henri Nouwen

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Hjalmar Branting

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Heston Blumenthal

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault

Hideo Kojima

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

Heraclitus

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Heraclitus

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Henry Fielding

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

Helena Christensen

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

John Knowles

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.